Sr Procurement Program Manager

How will you make an impact?

The Senior Procurement Program Manager drives the program management and execution of multiple procurement strategic imperatives and initiatives and operates as an internal consultant cross the global network to ensure successful program delivery for the Pharmaceutical Services group. This role in conjunction with relevant business partners will deliver large scale, complex initiatives that identify, design, and implement novel Procurement business solutions.

What will you do?

• Defines the results and outcomes structure and content; facilitates agreement of proposed solutions from functional, business unit and site leadership, site operations, and other key partners
• Leads multiple projects at a time with well-documented and organized project management methodologies to problem solve and support enterprise and functional objectives
• Develops effective communication strategies and deliver executive-level presentations to propose key initiatives, provide critical implementation updates, operational line-of-sight, and demonstrate delivery of value within the organization
• Identifies key risks and the impact of those risks on the project and through scenario planning
• Performs analysis to identify value and case development, through financial and options analysis, identification of required achievements and results, implementation plans and resources required to achieve and ensure projects make valuable contributions to the organization.
• Runs confidentiality commitments and clearances for the project
• Reports on key targets, projects, pipeline, and AOP financial targets, including adoption of a standard tool and processes
• Coordinates data inputs across the function to enable key reporting clarity and insights
• Uses business partner inputs and knowledge of existing systems and constraints to develop standard reporting requirements and drive process improvements

Technical Responsibilities

• Applies consistent project management approaches and processes, identifies and reports roadblocks and variances to project plans, ensures projects are on schedule and achieve stated objectives
• Tracks and monitors timely completion of project achievements within the portfolio, plan vs. actual and report that progress as appropriate
• Drives project governance, including regular cadence of PMO sessions (schedule, prepare for, run and drive follow-ups for key meetings)
• Leads overall project plans, overall schedules, budgets, resources, timelines
• Detects and facilitates issue resolution including appropriate governance to address program risk
• Maintains document repository and file structure as well as access rights; own cataloguing and supervising version control on key documents
• Uses PPI business systems and processes to drive continuous improvement

Leadership Responsibilities

• Leads global, cross-functional, geographically distributed teams to achieve desired outcomes
• Coordinates with team members to identify and detail resource constraints
• Influences key partners in order to achieve key achievements on time and within plan, develop relationships within the company to complete assigned projects.
• Facilitates breakthrough thinking by integrating diverse views while participating in targeted content sessions to enable problem solving

How will you get here?

Education

• Bachelors and/or Master’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, Engineering, or Science. MBA desirable.
• Certification in Project Management is desirable.

Experience

• 8+ years’ experience leading large scale, global programs and project initiatives, preferably within the Procurement function
• Life Sciences, BioTech, or Pharma industry preferred
• Experience in Procurement, Supply Chain, Sourcing, Category Management preferred
• Process improvement background (PPI, Lean, Six Sigma, etc.) preferred

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Robust project management skills and capabilities (Gantt charts, dashboards, key results, case and baseline development)
• Outstanding analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to efficiently organize forums and coordinate communications
• Strong ability to effectively communicates with and present to Senior Leadership
• Consistent track record to make recommendations on and deliver assigned projects
• Can work independently, within a team, and collaboratively across teams
• Ability to lead matrix project teams of peers and other collaborators and navigate within a matrix environment
• Ability to work across multiple sites and platforms in a virtual office environment
• Multi-tasking skills and planning for prioritizing personal workload

The salary range estimated for this position is $122,100 - $186,600. This position will also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. Actual compensation will be confirmed in writing at the time of offer.

We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our US colleagues and their families can count on, which generally includes:

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